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Hurrah for What?
Simon, Kate | February 25, 1956 issue

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The exuberant novel, "The Last Hurrah," by Edwin O'Connor, is a wake for the passing of a gaudy dinosaur. Frank Skeffington, for whom "the last hurrah" is shouted, is a colorful man painted larger than life, and the author mourns him looking out of a vapid conformist present to a gone era of high excitement. The era was a little before the time of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the excitement derived from the eccentric personalities, the unabashed sentiments, the exultant trickery and the adulation surrounding a political leader of the Irish in city which might easily be Boston. "The Last Hurrah" has some qualities of the historical novel.

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LAST Hurrah, The (Book); O'CONNOR, Edwin; POLITICAL leadership; POLITICIANS in literature; BOOKS; FICTION
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